Apple TV no longer shows up in Win7 iTunes

I have a Windows 7 PC which I use as my main media storage computer. In the living room I have an Apple TV Gen 2, linked by wifi to my router, which in turn is linked by a powerline connector and a 5-port hub to the Win 7 PC. Until about ten days ago I could stream music, video and photos from my Win 7 PC to my ATV, no problem. Now, something has changed and it no longer works.
What no longer works:
- iTunes on Win7 PC no longer finds the ATV
- ATV no longer sees the iTunes library on the Win7 PC
- Remote on the iPhone and iPad no longer find the iTunes library on the Win7
What does work:
- Remote on the iPhone and iPad find the ATV
- ATV retrieves stuff from the internet, no problem
- iPhone and iPads sync to the Win7 machine, so iTunes is on the network and available via the router's wifi
- Airplay from iPhone to ATV
- iTunes on my MBA, when it's on the same wifi as the ATV, shows up and works
Any ideas? I've restarted everything, reinstalled iTunes, checked that the software on every device is up-to-date. No luck so far.

Seem to have fixed the problem. I read somewhere that some routers sometimes struggle to link Apple TVs to wired PCs so I bought an Apple Airport Extreme router. Job done, works perfectly. The AAE seems faster than my previous router and the ATV certainly takes far less time to acquire the library from the PC.

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I went to settings on Apple TV and tested the network, which was o.k.
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Until early this Sunday morning when I discovered this solution, my iMac would not sync with the Apple TV. This problem began after the most recent Apple TV software update. I neglected to mention in my previous posts that my Apple TV was connected to the Internet via an Ethernet connection.
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